THE UNEXPECTED

ENCOUNTER,

COMIC OPERA

IN THREE ACTS AND PROSE,

TAKEN FROM THE

PILGRIMS OF MECCA,

Written by M. DANCOURT & set to Music by M. le Chevalier GLUK original: "M. le Chevalier GLUK" referring to Christoph Willibald Gluck, Music Master of the Imperial Court.

An ornamental woodcut vignette depicts a putto or youth seated in a pastoral landscape, leaning against a large rounded vessel or gourd. The figure is framed by leafy branches and flowers, with several sheaves of wheat lying on the ground to the left.

IN PARIS,

At the house of the Widow DUCHESNE, Bookseller, Rue Saint-Jacques, at the Temple of Taste.